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The polis and the platform
Independence and community aren’t opposites. The Greeks knew it, and so does anyone who has run a club. Online, we’ve forgotten it, and handed our communities to masters.
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Privacy is not impunity
Originally published April 2023. The argument hasn't changed. The platforms have only made it more urgent. Every community has behaviour that is legal but corrosive: the committee member who treats the organisation's money as their own, the volunteer who bullies newcomers until they leave, the member who harasses others and dares anyone to prove it.…
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WordPress development is apathetic
WordPress has dropped the ball: the structural projects that would make it far better are not being tackled, while development chases UI improvements and quick wins.
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Some clarification to the webmentions discussion
In reply to this analysis by Barnaby Walters of my original article. Barnaby you wrote: The evidence is against you here, as almost all known usage of webmention has been for short replies which don’t make sense without context. Actually we aren’t disagreeing, maybe I didn’t express myself well when I wrote “At the moment…
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Thoughts on extending webmentions
My thoughts on extending the webmentions functionality
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LH RDF not just xml anymore
LH Rdf is back!! Yes development has started again and the first stop is to add additional formats to the output. Previously Lh Rdf only supported RDF-xml and has been designed almost exclusively around that. Therefore to add other formats I have bundled the Easyrdf library into the plugin. When the query string lhrdf is…
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Visualising RDF with Incontext
Surfing around the internet I recently discovered SURF‘s InContext Visualiser, which I think is a neat way to visualise of RDF relationships, especially OAI-ORE aggregated publications I also discovered that people have already created a set of WordPress plugins (see: http://ep-books.ehumanities.nl/ ) to visualise books and other similar publications. However blogs do not fit into…
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Introducing LH Tools
A RDF Store and SPARQL Endpoint for WP.
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LH Relationships wordpress plugin
Intoducing LH Relationships. LH Relationships is a WordPress plugin that enables the creation of true post to post relationships. More information for the rationale driving this is available here. It was built as a core part of the LocalHero project.
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The structural weaknesses of WordPress
WordPress is a great system for personal semantic publishing and is more than adequate for the vast the majority of websites. No other CMS can match it for simplicity, ease of use, breadth of plugins, and an active developer community. However due to its blogging background it has one very substantial weakness. Namely there is…